A new semi-empirical kinetic method for the determination of ion exchange constants for the counterions of cationic micelles

Kinetics and Mechanism of Alkaline Hydrolysis of N-(o-Aminophenyl)Phthalimide in the Presence and Absence of Cationic Micelles and Sodium Salts of Aliphatic Acids

Pseudo first-order rate constants, k obs, for the alkaline hydrolysis of N-( o-aminophenyl) phthalimide, obtained at constant [CTABr]T (total concentration of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide) and varying concentrations of inert salt MX (MX = sodium formate, sodium acetate, sodium propanoate, sodium butyrate, sodium valerate and sodium hexanoate) follow the relationship: [Formula: see text], where θ and KX/S are empirical constants and S = HO-. The values of KX/S for each aliphatic acid decrease with an increase in [CTABr]T. This relationship gives an empirical constant whose magnitude is the measure of the ability of an ion, X-, to expel another counterion S-, from the cationic micellar surface to the bulk aqueous phase. The values of the empirical constant, KX/S, are used to derive the ion exchange constant, KBrX.

Kinetics and Mechanism of Cationic Micelle/Flexible Nanoparticle Catalysis: A Review

The aqueous surfactant (Surf) solution at [Surf] > cmc (critical micelle concentration) contains flexible micelles/nanoparticles. These particles form a pseudophase of different shapes and sizes where the medium polarity decreases as the distance increases from the exterior region of the interface of the Surf/H2O particle towards its furthest interior region. Flexible nanoparticles (FNs) catalyse a variety of chemical and biochemical reactions. FN catalysis involves both positive catalysis ( i.e. rate increase) and negative catalysis ( i.e. rate decrease). This article describes the mechanistic details of these catalyses at the molecular level, which reveals the molecular origin of these catalyses. Effects of inert counterionic salts (MX) on the rates of bimolecular reactions (with one of the reactants as reactive counterion) in the presence of ionic FNs/micelles may result in either positive or negative catalysis. The kinetics of cationic FN (Surf/MX/H2O)-catalysed bimolecular reactions (with nonionic and anionic reactants) provide kinetic parameters which can be used to determine an ion exchange constant or the ratio of the binding constants of counterions.

Kinetics and Mechanism of Counterionic Salt-Catalysed Piperidinolysis of Anionic Phenyl Salicylate in the Presence of Cationic–Nonionic Mixed Micelles

The quantitative correlation of counterion-affinity to aqueous hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (HDAB, cationic micelles/nanoparticles) and the counterion-induced HDAB micellar growth, in the presence of different amounts of poly(ethylene glycol hexadecyl ether) (C16E20, nonionic surfactant), was achieved by the use of a semi-empirical kinetic (SEK) method. The values of the ratio of cationic HDAB, as well as mixed HDAB–C16E20, micellar binding constants of X and Br, KX/ KBr (= KXBr or RXBr) for X = 4-ClC6H4CO2-, were obtained by the SEK method. The concentration range (0.006–0.015 M) of pure HDAB was found to have no influence on the values of KXBr or RXBr. These observations were also recorded upon addition of a nonionic surfactant, C16E20, in an aqueous solution of HDAB. The mean value of KXBr or RXBr obtained in the presence of pure HDAB ( KXBr or RXBr = 50.3) is 2.3 times larger than that in the presence of mixed HDAB–C16E20 (m KXBr or m RXBr = 21.7). From rheometric measurements of aqueous HDA+/4-ClC6H4CO2- with 0.015 M HDAB, single symmetric maxima (at both 25 and 35 °C) were obtained at [4-ClC6H4CO2Na] = 0.03 M. This is evidence for the existence of wormlike micelles/nanoparticles. However, the absence of a maximum in rheometric data for aqueous HDA+/C16E20/4-ClC6H4CO2- with 0.015 M HDAB and 0.006 M C16E20 at various [4-ClC6H4CO2Na] revealed the existence of spherical micelles.

Study of Cationic and Nonionic Mixed Micelles with NaBr and 3,5-Cl2C6H3CO2Na by Use of Probe Nucleophilic Reaction of Piperidine with Ionized Phenyl Salicylate

Behaviors of cationic and nonionic mixed micelles in the form of hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (HDABr) and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide-Polyethylene glycol hexadecyl ether (C₁₆E₂₀), in the presence of inert salts (NaBr and 3,5-dichlorosodium benzoate), by the use of reaction probe between Pp and ionized PhSH (Pp = piperidine and PhSH = phenyl salicylate), has been reported in this work. The values of R_X^Br (R_X^Br denotes ion exchange constants obtained in the presence of micelles of different structural features) or K_X^Br (K_X^Br denotes ion exchange constants obtained in the presence of micelles of the same structural features) for 3,5-Cl₂C₆H₃CO₂^- were almost the same at three different [HDABr]_T (0.006, 0.010 and 0.015 M). The average value of R_X^Br or K_X^Br determined, in the presence of pure HDABr micelles, using semi empirical kinetic (SEK) method appeared to be almost 2½-fold larger (R_X^Br or K_X^Br = 198) than that in the presence of mixed HDABr-C₁₆E₂₀ micelles (R_X^Br or K_X^Br = 78). Rheological measurements indicated the existence of wormlike/twisted micelles and vesicle at 0.015 M pure HDABr, various [3,5-Cl₂C₆H₃CO₂Na], and 25 and 35℃ whereas there were evidence of only spherical micelles in the presence of mixed HDABr-C₁₆E₂₀ ([HDABr]_T = 0.015 M and [C₁₆E₂₀]_T = 0.006 M) at both temperatures.

Giant vesicles (GV) in colloidal system under the optical polarization microscope (OPM)

This paper discusses the unprecedented microscopic findings of micellar growth in colloidal system (CS) of catalyzed piperidinolysis of ionized phenyl salicylate (PS^-). The giant vesicles (GV) was observed under the optical polarization microscope (OPM) at [NaX]=0.1M where X=3-isopropC₆H₄O^-. The conditions were rationalized from pseudo-first-order rate constant, k_obs of PS^- of micellar phase at 31.1×10^-3s^-1 reported in previous publication. The overall diameter of GV (57.6μm) in CS (CTABr/NaX/H₂O)-catalyzed piperidinolysis (where X=3-isopropC₆H₄O) of ionized phenyl salicylate were found as giant unilamellar vesicles (GUV) and giant multilamellar vesicles (GMV). The findings were also validated by means of rheological analysis.

Determination of Relative Counterion Binding Constant to Cationic Micelles

The efficiency of counterion affinity towards ionic micelles is often described in terms of the degree of counterion binding (β _X ) to ionic micelles or the conventional ion-exchange constant ([Formula: see text]) or relative binding constant ([Formula: see text]) of X ^- and Br^- counterions. This review describes the use of ionized phenyl salicylate ions, PSa^-, as a new probe to determine [Formula: see text] values using a semiempirical spectrophotometric method. The value of [Formula: see text] is found to be comparable to reported values obtained using different probes by the semiempirical kinetic method as well as different physical methods. Application of semiempirical methods for calculation of [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] values involves an inherent assumption that these values are independent of the physicochemical characteristics of the probe molecule.

Influence of mixed CTABr–C16E20 nanoparticles on relative counterion binding constants in aqueous solutions of inert salts (2-NaOC6H4CO2Na and NaBr): kinetic and rheometric study

A semi-empirical kinetic technique has been used to obtain the ratios of pure CTABr (cationic nanoparticle) and mixed CTABr–C₁₆E₂₀ (cationic–nonionic nanoparticle) micellar binding constants of counterions X and Br, K_X/K_Br (=KBrX or RBrX) for X = salicylate ion.

Exploring the charged nature of supramolecular micelles based on p-sulfonatocalix[6]arene and dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide

Kinetic probes were used together with capillary electrophoresis experiments to get insights into the interfacial and solubilizing properties of supramolecular micelles made of an anionic calix[6]arene and a cationic surfactant.

Kinetics and mechanism of nanoparticles-catalyzed piperidinolysis of anionic phenyl salicylate

The values of the relative counterion (X) binding constant R(X)(Br) (=K(X)/K(Br), where K(X) and K(Br) represent cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CTABr, micellar binding constants of X(v-) (in non-spherical micelles), v = 1,2, and Br(-) (in spherical micelles)) are 58, 68, 127, and 125 for X(v-) = 1(-), 1(2-), 2(-), and 2(2-), respectively. The values of 15 mM CTABr/[Na(v)X] nanoparticles-catalyzed apparent second-order rate constants for piperidinolysis of ionized phenyl salicylate at 35 °C are 0.417, 0.488, 0.926, and 0.891 M(-1) s(-1) for Na(v)X = Na1, Na2 1, Na2, and Na2 2, respectively. Almost entire catalytic effect of nanoparticles catalyst is due to the ability of nonreactive counterions, X(v-), to expel reactive counterions, 3(-), from nanoparticles to the bulk water phase.

Semi-empirical spectrophotometric (SESp) method for the indirect determination of the ratio of cationic micellar binding constants of counterions X⁻ and Br⁻(K(X)/K(Br))

The semi-empirical spectrophotometric (SESp) method, for the indirect determination of ion exchange constants (K(X)(Br)) of ion exchange processes occurring between counterions (X⁻ and Br⁻) at the cationic micellar surface, is described in this article. The method uses an anionic spectrophotometric probe molecule, N-(2-methoxyphenyl)phthalamate ion (1⁻), which measures the effects of varying concentrations of inert inorganic or organic salt (Na(v)X, v = 1, 2) on absorbance, (A(ob)) at 310 nm, of samples containing constant concentrations of 1⁻, NaOH and cationic micelles. The observed data fit satisfactorily to an empirical equation which gives the values of two empirical constants. These empirical constants lead to the determination of K(X)(Br) (= K(X)/K(Br) with K(X) and K(Br) representing cationic micellar binding constants of counterions X and Br⁻). This method gives values of K(X)(Br) for both moderately hydrophobic and hydrophilic X⁻. The values of K(X)(Br), obtained by using this method, are comparable with the corresponding values of K(X)(Br), obtained by the use of semi-empirical kinetic (SEK) method, for different moderately hydrophobic X. The values of K(X)(Br) for X = Cl⁻ and 2,6-Cl₂C6H₃CO₂⁻, obtained by the use of SESp and SEK methods, are similar to those obtained by the use of other different conventional methods.

Quantitative correlation between counterion-affinity to cationic micelles and counterion-induced micellar growth

The fascinating and serendipitous discovery, in 1976, of the characteristic viscoelastic behavior of wormlike micelles of cetyltrimethylammonium salicylate (CTASa) surfactant solution at ~2×10(-4) M CTASa became a catalyst for an increasing interest in both industrial application and mechanism of the origin of micellar growth of this and related wormlike micellar systems. It has been perceived for more than three decades, based upon qualitative evidence, that the extent of the strength of the counterion (X) binding to ionic micelles determines the counterion-induced micellar structural transition from spherical-to-small rodlike-to-linear long stiff/flexible rodlike/wormlike-to-entangled wormlike micelles. This perception predicts the presence of a possible quantitative correlation of counterionic micellar binding constants (KX) with counterion-induced micellar growth. The quantitative estimation of counterion binding affinity to cationic micelles, in terms of the values of the degree of counterion binding (βX), is concluded to be either inefficient or unreliable for moderately hydrophobic counterions (such as substituted benzoate ions). The values of KX, measured in terms of conventional ion exchange constants (KX(Y)), can provide a quantitative correlation between KX or KX(Y) (with a reference counterion Y=Cl(-) or Br(-)) and counterion-induced ionic micellar growth. A recent new semi-empirical kinetic (SEK) method provides the estimation of KX(Y) for Y=Br as well as ratio of counterionic micellar binding constants KX/KBr (= RX(Br)) where the values of KBr and KX have been derived from the kinetic parameters in the presence of cationic spherical and nonspherical micelles, respectively. The SEK method has been used to determine the values of KX(Br) or RX(Br) for X=2-, 3- and 4-ClC6H4CO2(-). Rheometric measurements on aqueous CTABr/MX (MX=2-,3- and 4-ClBzNa) solutions containing 0.015 M CTABr and varying values of [MX] reveal the presence of spherical micelles for MX=2-ClBzNa and long linear as well as entangled wormlike micelles for MX=3- and 4-ClBzNa. The respective values of KX(Br) or RX(Br) of 5.7, 50 and 48 for X=2-, 3- and 4-ClBz(-) give a quantitative correlation with the rheometric measurements of the structural features of micelles of 0.015 M CTABr solutions containing 2-, 3- and 4 ClBzNa.